A Crain's editorial in support of Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to rezone East New York, a far-flung Brooklyn neighborhood with a reputation for crime and poverty, generated a heated debate about gentrification, raising doubts about whether the plan will fly when public review begins next week.

Responses to the editorial consisted largely of two contradictory assertions: That the plan would displace longtime residents, and that it would not because middle-class people would never move to a place they perceive as dangerous and distant from Manhattan. The mayor's planning czar weighed in, too. Read more here. —AJH

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